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Elena Pridankina

Elena Pridankina
Full nameElena Ivanovna Pridankina
Country (sports) Russia
Born (2005-08-30) 30 August 2005 (age 19)
Vidnoye, Russia
PlaysRight-handed
Prize money$80,076
Singles
Career record127–49
Career titles5 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 179 (21 October 2024)
Current rankingNo. 179 (28 October 2024)
Doubles
Career record68–40
Career titles5 ITF
Highest rankingNo. 138 (14 October 2024)
Current rankingNo. 139 (28 October 2024)
Last updated on: 28 October 2024.

Elena Ivanovna Pridankina (Russian: Елена Ивановна Приданкина, born 30 August 2005) is a Russian tennis player.[1]

Pridankina has career-high rankings by the WTA of world No. 179 in singles and No. 138 in doubles, achieved in October 2024.[2]

Personal life

Elena's father Ivan Pridankin is a former coach of Daniil Medvedev.[3]

Career

In November 2023, Pridankina won her biggest ITF title thus far at a W40 tournament in Funchal, Portugal, partnering with Anastasia Kovaleva.[4] The following week, she also won the W25 doubles tournament in Lousada, Portugal.[5]

Ranked No. 179, Pridankina made her WTA Tour debut at the 2024 Guangzhou Open after entering the main draw as a lucky loser but lost to Caroline Dolehide.[6][7]

She secured her first WTA Tour win at the 2024 Jiangxi Open, defeating Ella Seidel,[8][9] before losing in the second round to fifth seed Kamilla Rakhimova.[10]

ITF Circuit finals

Singles: 10 (6 titles, 4 runner-ups)

Legend
W75 tournaments
W50 tournaments
W25 tournaments
W15 tournaments
Finals by surface
Hard (3–3)
Clay (3–1)
Result W–L    Date    Tournament Tier Surface Opponent Score
Win 1–0 Aug 2022 ITF Cairo, Egypt W15 Clay Romania Alexandra Iordache 6–1, 6–1
Win 2–0 Sep 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Slovakia Katarína Kuzmová 3–6, 6–4, 6–4
Win 3–0 Oct 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Russia Anastasiia Gureva 6–7(5), 6–4, 7–6(2)
Win 4–0 Apr 2023 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard China Wang Meiling 6–3, 6–1
Win 5–0 Sep 2023 ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia W15 Clay Germany Mara Guth 7–6(4), ret.
Loss 5–1 Dec 2023 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W25 Hard Georgia (country) Mariam Bolkvadze 2–6, 1–6
Loss 5–2 Feb 2024 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W35 Hard Georgia (country) Mariam Bolkvadze 0–6, 3–6
Loss 5–3 Mar 2024 Trnava Indoor, Slovakia W50 Hard (i) Russia Anastasiia Gureva 6–3, 3–6, 4–6
Loss 5–4 Aug 2024 Zagreb Open, Croatia W50 Clay Italy Giorgia Pedone 6–2, 2–6, 5–7
Win 6–4 Aug 2024 Amstetten, Austria W75 Clay Ukraine Valeriya Strakhova 6–0, 6–4

Doubles: 14 (7 titles, 7 runner-ups)

Legend
W100 tournaments
W80 tournaments
W75 tournaments
W40 tournaments
W25 tournaments
W15 tournaments
Result W–L Date Tournament Tier Surface Partner Opponents Score
Loss 0–1 Aug 2022 ITF Cairo, Egypt W15 Clay Russia Elizaveta Shebekina Egypt Yasmin Ezzat
Greece Dimitra Pavlou
5–7, 3–6
Win 1–1 Sep 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Russia Aglaya Fedorova Egypt Yasmin Ezzat
Belarus Aliona Falei
7–5, 6–1
Loss 1–2 Oct 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Russia Aglaya Fedorova Italy Anastasia Abbagnato
Italy Beatrice Stagno
6–2, 3–6, [5–10]
Win 2–2 Oct 2022 ITF Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt W15 Hard Russia Anastasiia Gureva Chinese Taipei Cho I-hsuan
Chinese Taipei Cho Yi-tsen
6-7(3), 6–1, [10-6]
Win 3–2 Jul 2023 ITF Aschaffenburg, Germany W25 Clay Czech Republic Ivana Šebestová France Manon Léonard
France Lucie Nguyen Tan
2–6, 6–2, [10–5]
Loss 3–3 Sep 2023 ITF Kursumlijska Banja, Serbia W15 Clay Germany Mara Guth Greece Eleni Christofi
Serbia Katarina Jokić
2–6, 3–6
Loss 3–4 Oct 2023 Internationaux de Poitiers, France W80 Hard (i) Russia Ekaterina Maklakova France Jessika Ponchet
Netherlands Bibiane Schoofs
5–7, 4–6
Win 4–4 Nov 2023 ITF Funchal, Portugal W40 Hard Russia Anastasia Kovaleva France Yasmine Mansouri
Portugal Inês Murta
6–2, 6–3
Win 5–4 Nov 2023 ITF Lousada, Portugal W25 Hard (i) Germany Mara Guth Germany Alicia Melosch
Germany Johanna Silva
6–1, 6–1
Loss 5–5 Nov 2023 ITF Lousada, Portugal W25 Hard (i) Canada Kayla Cross Belgium Eliessa Vanlangendonck
Netherlands Stéphanie Visscher
w/o
Loss 5–6 Jul 2024 Open de Montpellier, France W75 Clay Russia Ekaterina Yashina Croatia Mariana Dražić
Belarus Iryna Shymanovich
6–1, 4–6, [8–10]
Win 6–6 Aug 2024 Přerov Cup, Czech Republic W75 Clay Czech Republic Julie Štruplová Germany Noma Noha Akugue
Greece Sapfo Sakellaridi
6–3, 6–4
Win 7–6 Oct 2024 Slovak Open, Slovakia W75 Hard (i) Netherlands Isabelle Haverlag Slovakia Katarína Kužmová
Slovakia Nina Vargová
7–5, 6–2
Loss 7–7 Dec 2024 Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge, United Arab Emirates W100 Hard Netherlands Isabelle Haverlag Czech Republic Anastasia Dețiuc
Anastasia Tikhonova
3–6, 7–6(7), [8–10]

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